It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!